The Ancient Economy

Introduction; PART I: AFTER FINLEY; Chapter 1 The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece; Chapter 2 Twenty Years after Moses I. Finley's The Ancient Economy; PART II: PRODUCTION; Chapter 3 Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ça change?; Chapter 4 Olive Production and the Roman Economy: The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire; PART III MONEY AND MARKETS; Chapter 5 Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC; Chapter 6 Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence: Exchange and Society in the Greek City; Chapter 7 The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos; Chapter 8 The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt; PART IV TRADE AND TRANSFER; Chapter 9 Agricultural Products Transported in Amphorae: Oil and Wine; Chapter 10 Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade; PART V THE NATURE OF THE ANCIENT ECONOMY; Chapter 11 Modernism, Economics and the Ancient Economy; Chapter 12 Framing the Debate over Growth in the Ancient Economy;

Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden